After electing Jermaine Reed for two terms on the city council, then rejecting his bid last year to serve as the city’s mayor, on Tuesday, Kansas City voters elected Reed to a seat on the Metropolitan Community College Board of Trustees. Reed, squeaked out a win by just a 1% margin over incu…

Sarah Collins Rudolph thought she'd never see what happened in her hometown: Prompted by protests, the city removed a 115-year-old Confederate monument near where her sister and three other Black girls died in a racist church bombing in 1963.

American religious leaders across faiths are grappling with the heavy burden of helping to heal two active traumas: rising civil unrest driven by the police killing of George Floyd and the coronavirus pandemic.

In the 100 years since the Southwestern Athletic Conference was formed, the conference home for some of the nation's most storied historically Black colleges and universities has always found a way to do more with less.